GRAYLING, MI – For generations, this was the biggest and most-hugged tree in the largest stand of old growth pine trees remaining in Michigan’s Lower Peninsula. “The Monarch” presided as the crowned ...
ReLeaf Michigan, a statewide non-profit tree planting and education organization, announced the winners of the 16th biennial Michigan Big Tree Hunt contest, held from spring 2023 through August 2025.
As American beech trees go, the one in Jim Berman and Liz Bryant’s backyard is a whopper. At a circumference of 210.5 inches at the base, it’s officially the largest of its species in Indiana. “It is ...